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Pelosi smacks down public option
By Mike Riggs   03/12/10 at 11:31 AM


Jon Ward has a piece on Pelosi coming. Here’s a sample:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today that Democrats are “one day closer to passing historic legislation to make health care more affordable.”

“We’ll take whatever time is required to pass the legislation,” she added. “We stand ready to stay as long as it takes to pass a bill.”

Pelosi also shot down the idea of a public option: “We’re talking about something that is not going to be part of the legislation … they don’t have the votes to have it in there.”

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Pelosi’s House health-care push

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ordered committee chairmen to postpone their hearings Thursday so lawmakers can meet to chart a course for one last sales job on President Obama’s signature health care overhaul.

Whether it’s expanding Medicaid or Medicare, tax-funded abortion service, special kickbacks for resistant lawmakers or the untallied costs, none of the unanswered questions has left Democratic leaders from insisting a deal is near.

-- Edited by Sanders on Friday 12th of March 2010 12:22:49 PM